That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.